Baat Ek Raat Ki

Neela (Waheeda Rehman) is in police custody for committing a murder and thinking that she did it, she confesses her crime. When renowned lawyer Rajeshwar (Dev Anand) decides to represent her, he considers her as guilty in the first instance. Butas he delves deeper into the details of her life and story, he is not sure whether she is guilty or not. What could have made Neela commit the crime or place her at the scene of this heinous crime? He starts acting as her love interest and tries to get her to reveal details of her life. In the meanwhile, he actually falls in love with her. Eventually, it is revealed that Neela's employer Beni Prasad is the mastermind behind Neela's imprisonment. He is after her property and devises a plan with Ranjan (Chandrashekhar), Neela's co-actor and first love interest, where Ranjan acts as if he loves Neela and gets her to sign a will. But on the night Ranjan takes the papers to Neela and is just getting them signed, he changes his mind and confesses to Neela that her doesn't love her and was getting paid to get the will signed. Neela feels betrayed and holds him at gunpoint to divulge the name of the employer. When he is just about to name his employer he is shot. Neela believes it's she who had killed him, whereas it was Beni Prasad, who was hiding and listening to the whole conversation who had shot Ranjan, who dies on the spot. Rajesh disguises himself and appears at the court on the final day and accuses Beni Prasad and tells the whole story. In the whole story, CID (Johnny Walker) aids him as well as Kallu, a street beggar who pretends to be blind acts as a witness. The final scene shows Rajesh driving his car and saying: "What do i get?? Money, fame and nothing else!!" When he imagines Neela talking to him and answering his questions, she mentions in his imagination that you cannot get rid of shadows. the very next moment, Neela appears from the back of the car and the happy couple are reunited and are seen to be in love. The movie ends with Rajesh and Neela driving the car to the song "Jo Ijaazat Ho To Ek Baat".